Sensible AI, Coding, and Everything In-Betweenhttps://www.sethjuarez.com/en-ushttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/cors-and-mixed-content-with-azure-functions/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/cors-and-mixed-content-with-azure-functions/This is a follow-up from the previous post on deploying an ONNX model using Azure Functions. Suppose you've got the API working great and youwant to include this amazing functionality on a brand new website. What follows is the harrowing path…Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/onnx-model-azure-functions-deploy/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/onnx-model-azure-functions-deploy/Building awesome machine learning models can be an onerous task. Once all the blood, sweat and tears have been expended creating this magical (and ethical) model sometimes it feels like getting the thing deployed will require severing another limb…Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/unstructured-data-with-form-recognizer/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/unstructured-data-with-form-recognizer/Every business has their "junk" drawer (or the "share" as Bill/Karen likes to call it). Often hidden in this data wasteland are nuggets of informational gold that could revolutionize the way you do business (we hope). Turns out that the most…Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/tips-for-cloud-ml/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/tips-for-cloud-ml/Let's say you built an amazingly wonderful hand-crafted artisanal convolutional neural network that works beautifully on your hard-drive based dataset. You are now ready to take this masterpiece to the cloud to work on a much larger dataset on…Mon, 06 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/talking-about-technology/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/talking-about-technology/Making software is hard. Every once in a while we find some code that really helps the process. It makes our own code intelligible: almost fun! Sometimes the magical code is of our own making but often we are using someone else's code. In…Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/a-new-position/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/a-new-position/It is appallingly wrong of me to not have written anything in over a year. One of my resolutions is to ameliorate the situation by trying to write at least one thing every month (sorry January). In this post I would like to announce that I have…Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/a-brief-forage-into-functional-thinking/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/a-brief-forage-into-functional-thinking/I have long considered software engineering to be a craft that must be honed over years of careful study and precise implementation. What we learn in the labs of school and contrived examples are indeed important but only when carefully used in our…Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/on-misogyny-in-tech/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/on-misogyny-in-tech/It is disgusting and should stop.Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/descriptors-in-numl/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/descriptors-in-numl/As some of you know I have been working on a machine learning library for .NET called numl. The main purpose of the library is to abstract away some of the mundane issues surrounding setting up the learning problem in the first place. Additionally…Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/codemash-2-0-1-3/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/codemash-2-0-1-3/It was absolutely a blast to be able to present my new machine learning library at CodeMash this year. One of the key goals of the library is to ensure that it is readily accessible to all of its users. Machine learning can often be an intimidating…Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/linear-classifiers/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/linear-classifiers/Thinking in Points Consider this little plot generated by python. There are a series of example points (blue and red) along with three test points (green x). Consider the following question: > If you were to guess the color of 3 new points (1, 2,…Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/supervised-learning-classification/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/supervised-learning-classification/Supervised Learning In supervised learning, the algorithm is given labeled examples in order to come up with an appropriate model that defines the data and can also correctly label future examples correctly (or adequately). Supervised learning can…Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/what-is-machine-learning/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/what-is-machine-learning/Introduction I had the priviledge of presenting at CodeStock. It was absolutely great. I was surprised and humbled at the reception of my session regarding Machine Learning. As such, I wanted to do a series of posts regarding what it is I wish to…Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/creating-advanced-asp-net-mvc-controls-part-3-a-scheduler/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/creating-advanced-asp-net-mvc-controls-part-3-a-scheduler/Purpose This is part 3 of a series going through the process of creating an advanced control for the ASP.NET MVC system. I've decided to create a schedule control that allows a user to schedule and item on a calendar control as well as add some…Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/creating-advanced-asp-net-mvc-controls-part-2-finished-debugger/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/creating-advanced-asp-net-mvc-controls-part-2-finished-debugger/Purpose As mentioned in the previous post, in order to create good client side controls that interact well with the ASP.NET MVC system, we need to have a way to visualize data that the control either generates, or passes to the controllers. I found…Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/creating-advanced-asp-net-mvc-controls-part-1-a-debugger/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/creating-advanced-asp-net-mvc-controls-part-1-a-debugger/Purpose In previous posts, I started creating an html grid helper that was really just an experiment to see how one would accomplish such a thing. Here, I wanted to delve into a more generic approach to creating html controls for the ASP.NET MVC…Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/upgrade-to-blogengine-1-5/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/upgrade-to-blogengine-1-5/Upgrading was super easy! Again, thanks to Al Nyveldt, it only took a little over 30 minutes. The feature that interests me most is the nested commenting.Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/proper-syntax-highlighter/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/proper-syntax-highlighter/The Beef I've found myself often looking back through old posts (the few I have) and being seriously fed up with the various and sundry cheesy syntax highlighting I had used for code. In that spirit I finally decided to get a proper one. The one I…Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/jquery-mvc-form-helper/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/jquery-mvc-form-helper/Simple Form Helper As I continue to use JQuery and MVC I am completely impressed with how much you can do with very little. I know the new preview 4 came out with an AjaxForm helper. I could not resist, so I made my own and added it to the whole…Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/upgrade-to-blogengine-1-4/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/upgrade-to-blogengine-1-4/Well, I finally upgraded to BlogEngine.NET 1.4 (patch and all). It took about 40 minutes or so (I was overly cautious of course). I am currently using SQL Server as the provider. Thanks to Al Nyveldt everything went smoothly. Overall, I like the…Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/mvc-form-helper/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/mvc-form-helper/Moving away from ASP 3.0 ... As mentioned in my previous post, I wanted to find a way to auto-populate and entity object from the Request.Form collection. I also wanted (as an aside) to see if the grid still worked on MVC Preview 4 (it does). Here…Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/ajax-html-grid-control-for-asp-net-mvc-part-3/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/ajax-html-grid-control-for-asp-net-mvc-part-3/Moving to an HTML Helper As I was looking around at the various HTML helpers out there, I realized that I should probably conform and stick to what is being done. Having said that, I refactored the Grid class to be a new HTML helper. Here is how it…Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/ajax-html-grid-control-for-asp-net-mvc-part-2/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/ajax-html-grid-control-for-asp-net-mvc-part-2/Preamble Over the long weekend I thought a lot about where I wanted to go with the grid "control" for ASP.NET MVC. One of the things that weighed heavily on my mind was the ability to have the control fully customizable. As I thought about this, I…Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/ajax-html-grid-control-for-asp-net-mvc-part-1/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/ajax-html-grid-control-for-asp-net-mvc-part-1/At work we are starting a major project and I think we have decided to go the ASP.NET MVC route. One of the concerns we had was that we could not use traditional "web controls" (i.e. Telerik, DevExpress) since the all require the `ToAjaxGrid`. The T…Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/using-jquery-to-perform-ajax-calls-in-asp-net-mvc/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/using-jquery-to-perform-ajax-calls-in-asp-net-mvc/As I was looking around for ways to enable Ajax in the current ASP.NET MVC release I found a couple of things that I found pretty useful and thought I should share. The J in Ajax (JQuery) The muscle behind the actual asynchronous calls comes from…Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/f-dictionary-binary-search/https://www.sethjuarez.com/posts/f-dictionary-binary-search/During a recent assignment, I found the need to create a quick word lookup from an ordered dictionary file. I post the following: Let me describe what is happening. I have found that as I learn to write stuff functionally, I tend to do things from a…Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT